Comments on: CNN’s IReport To Let Users Tell Own Stories http://www.digitaltrends.com/lifestyle/cnns-ireport-to-let-users-tell-own-stories/ Digital Trends is your home for technology news, CE product reviews, mobile app reviews and daily videos. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:14:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Will http://www.digitaltrends.com/lifestyle/cnns-ireport-to-let-users-tell-own-stories/#comment-55752 Will Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:31:47 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-55752 Huh? Jason are you kidding? I thought iConflict was boring. The whole point of iReport is for citizen journalists (in this case armed with a camera) to turn in what they find interesting. It's a smart idea, it gives people with a camera power, and it lets others view videos that might not otherwise make it on the web. Plus it let's CNN filter the videos so there is no gore, swearing, etc. Sounds like a winner to me. Huh? Jason are you kidding? I thought iConflict was boring. The whole point of iReport is for citizen journalists (in this case armed with a camera) to turn in what they find interesting. It's a smart idea, it gives people with a camera power, and it lets others view videos that might not otherwise make it on the web. Plus it let's CNN filter the videos so there is no gore, swearing, etc. Sounds like a winner to me.

]]> By: Jason http://www.digitaltrends.com/lifestyle/cnns-ireport-to-let-users-tell-own-stories/#comment-55751 Jason Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:43:17 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-55751 The point that CNN misses is that If news was a computer program, it has been Microsoft - a closed source program. Today, news needs to shift to an open source model and become the Linux of reporting. On CNN.com and iReport.com it achieves neither. <br /> <br /> On February 15th the top story on the iReport homepage was entitled "Breaking News Ketchup." The second story was on the weather in New York City, which happened to be lousy. As if bad weather in February was news worthy? For those seeking substance, there was a story on the children's character Elmo posing as a prostitute. Clearly, on iReport, the online community is amusing itself to death.<br /> <br /> With all that is happening in the world, who cares about what's on iReport? Clearly there is a better way for media. That's where iConflict.com comes in.<br /> <br /> You can read more about this blog post and the soon to be released iConflict at <a href="<a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.iconflict.com."">http://blog.iconflict.com."</a> title="<a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.iconflict.com."">http://blog.iconflict.com."</a> target="_blank" ref="nofollow"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.iconflict.com.">http://blog.iconflict.com.</a></a> The point that CNN misses is that If news was a computer program, it has been Microsoft – a closed source program. Today, news needs to shift to an open source model and become the Linux of reporting. On CNN.com and iReport.com it achieves neither.

On February 15th the top story on the iReport homepage was entitled “Breaking News Ketchup.” The second story was on the weather in New York City, which happened to be lousy. As if bad weather in February was news worthy? For those seeking substance, there was a story on the children's character Elmo posing as a prostitute. Clearly, on iReport, the online community is amusing itself to death.

With all that is happening in the world, who cares about what's on iReport? Clearly there is a better way for media. That's where iConflict.com comes in.

You can read more about this blog post and the soon to be released iConflict at http://blog.iconflict.com.“ title=”http://blog.iconflict.com.“ target=”_blank” ref=”nofollow”>http://blog.iconflict.com.

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